Coin-mailing card.



G. A. LOGAN.

COIN MAILING CARD.

APPLIOATION FILED 1.111. 4, 1911.

1,003,478. Patented Sept. 19, 1911.

COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH 120., WASHINGTON. D. c

GEORGE A. LOGAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COIN-MAILING- CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 19, 1911.

Application filed. January 4 1911. Serial No. 600,691.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. LOGAN, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented an Improvement in Coin-Mailing Cards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to coin-cards or holders, especially designed for mailing purposes, and has for its object to construct a card having one or more coin-receiving spaces, each space being normally filled with a partially severed piece of the card itself, which may be torn out or otherwise removed whenever desired to place a coin in the space, said spaces being other than round, as for instance square, and to arrange the integral connecting port-ions which are provided between the filling piece and the card itself at the corners, so that in case a filling piece is removed by tearing, the multilated edges produced by the tearing operation will not obstruct the space in such manner as to prevent the easy entrance of a coin.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a coinmailing card embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a front view of the coin-mailing card, the holder being detached. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the dotted lines 33. Fig. A is a portion of the card, one of the filling-pieces being removed to provide a coin-receiving space, and a coin placed in said space". Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are modifications to be referred to.

a represents a card, which may be of any suitable shape, size and material, but is usually made of cardboard. It may be arranged in a holder a, see Fig. 1. Said holder, as here shown, consists of a sheet of paper folded over one edge of the card and attached thereto as at 64 thence extended over the back of the card as at a and thence adapted to be extended over the front of the card as at a and attached at its end to the folded-over portion a it having a line of adhesive substance at the end for this purpose. It may also have lines of adhesive substance at the sides and elsewhere.

As here shown the card is arranged to provide for mailing a large number of coins, but so far as my invention is concerned the number of coins provided for is immaterial, except that a certain feature of my invent-ion, as will be hereinafter described, especially provides for more than one.

7) represents one of the coin-receiving spaces normally containing a filling-piece b, which latter is formed of the material of the cardboard by partially severing the same from the card, in such manner that it is integrally connected therewith at one or more points.

As shown in Figs. 1 to A, the coin-receiving spaces are made square, and the fillingpieces 6 are connected with the card at two opposite corners, as at 5 6 or the fillingpieces may be connected with the card at one point only, as b, Fig. 5, which ordinarily will be sufficient for the purpose of holding it securely in place. When it is desired to use a space for a coin the fillingpiece 6 therein is torn out or otherwise removed. The purpose of having the space square, Or other-than round, is to afford a free entrance for the coin even though mutilated or ragged ends are produced when the filling-piece is torn out, or otherwise removed, as shown in Fig. 4, and it will be noted that as the filling-piece is connected at the corners of the space this result may be obtained. In case the space is made round, as shown in Fig. 6, the coin may still be pressed into it, after the filling-piece has been removed, unless very large ragged portions are produced by the tearing ofl operation, although such ragged port-ions may be trimmed off. Therefore, while in the preferred embodiment of my invention the coin spaces are made square, yet they may be made of any desired shape. In a single card several such coinreceiving spaces may be provided of the same form but of different sizes.

The particular manner here shown of forming the coin-receiving space by first partially severing the card and subsequently tearing out or otherwise removing the filling-pieces admits of the employment of two or more filling-pieces c, 0', 0 arranged one within another, see Figs. 2 and 5, to provide coin-receiving spaces of difierent sizes by removing the innermost filling-piece or both the innermost and the surrounding fillingpiece, and so 011 according to the number of surrounding filling-pieces employed. As here shown such a coin space is provided with three fillingspaces, arranged one within another, and all integrally connected with the card at the corners, or elsewhere, said filling-pieces being represented at 0, 0' and 0 Upon removing the filling-pieces c, a space is provided large enough for a dime,

and upon removing the filling-pieces 0 and c, a space is provided large enough .for a 25-cent piece and upon removing all three filling-pieces a space is provided large enough for a 50-cent piece.

I claim: I

1. A coin-mailing card having a coin-receiving space with a part thereof extended outwardly beyond the circular contour of 1.) the coin, said space being normally filled with a filling-piece which is integrally connected with the card at said outward extension, substantially as described.

2. A coin-mailing card having a coin-rei,oo3,478

ceiving. space made square and normally filled with a filling-piece which is integrally connected with the card at one or more corners and is elsewhere separated from the card by a complete line of severance, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE A. LOGAN.

Witnesses:

B. J. NoYEs, H. B. DAvis.

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